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Orchid : a cultural history / Jim Endersby. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press ; Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, 2016. ISBN:  9780226376325 (hc.) Description:  viii, 292 p. : col. ill.; 23 cm. Contents:  Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 635.9344 E56o Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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